Rebel News Podcast - DAILY Roundup ｜ Danielle Smith's leadership, Rachel Notley's lies, AB church arsonist caught

00:00:00.000 where we go through the news of the day and talk about stories that matter i'm sydney

00:00:18.800 with rebel news and today is friday may 5th at the end of this month the provincial election

00:00:24.060 will be held here in alberta this election will decide alberta's new premier and set the stage

00:00:29.180 for the province's future as we attempt to exit the covid narrative era my co-host for today's show

00:00:35.040 is probably one of the best people in the province to talk to about these matters born and raised

00:00:39.440 alberta and calgary reporter for rebel news adam sos joins me now great to be here thanks so much

00:00:46.040 for having me really looking forward over the next couple weeks to having critical conversations

00:00:51.240 about this election clearly there's news happening right across this province but for this week in

00:00:56.440 the next three weeks we're going to take these fridays as kind of a throwback to the alberta

00:01:00.600 roundups and talk about critical issues i'm not necessarily exclusively election focused but

00:01:05.940 certainly issues that revolve around elections uh our very own shield of gun reed will also be

00:01:10.540 joining me for the next few weeks as well as we have these alberta focused editions but sid i really

00:01:14.760 do think um i don't know if you share the sentiment but you you strike me as a bonafide albertan now

00:01:20.560 do you would you agree with that sentiment uh i'd say certainly um although i i can't neglect my

00:01:27.580 ontario roots i i'm ontario born and raised i love that province even though it has uh certainly

00:01:32.600 a lot of issues to say the least now alberta it's a beautiful province amazing people in the politics

00:01:37.800 even though they're a little scary at times they're certainly a lot better uh but before we jump into

00:01:42.380 some of that and uh actually some of the questions you posed to the premier i just want to say quickly

00:01:47.480 for the viewers and your convenience uh we do stream on several different platforms youtube

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00:02:07.180 to see the full conversation please consider going to rumble or one of these alternatives

00:02:10.660 so now that that's out of the way adam sos you've actually been getting a lot of questions

00:02:15.460 into the premiere lately as you know we're in the election season here you want to tell me a little

00:02:19.620 about about that and we have a short clip we'll bring in on a second yeah it's it's been incredible

00:02:24.980 despite the sort of narratives about not being able to access uh daniel smith and her not answering

00:02:30.620 questions which we'll talk about in a bit from rachel notley um myself alex dolly while a number of

00:02:35.260 other journalists um are able to get questions in and effectively every event i've been to i've been

00:02:40.400 able to ask a question so um i guess we can just start rolling and and start sort of commenting on

00:02:45.540 some of these uh questions that we've got and i think we've got a video ready to roll on that so we

00:02:50.400 can hop to that right away good morning adam sos from rebel news a lot has been made about the sort

00:02:57.000 of daniel smith versus justin trudeau narrative or the daniel smith versus rachel notley narrative

00:03:01.380 um i wanted to touch on perhaps a different angle what about conservatives in alberta who are

00:03:05.800 apprehensive to support the ucp or i've often heard the terms are supporting the ucp only as a

00:03:11.280 lesser of two evils what do you say to them well look you've got two choices in this election i think

00:03:18.500 we've got a choice with the ucp government that will move alberta forward or an ndp government that

00:03:24.580 will move the province backward and we've seen the difference between our two records the ndp has

00:03:29.320 demonstrated what they will do when they're in government they increase taxes they brought in a

00:03:34.140 corporate tax increase they brought in a uh a carbon tax that we can't get rid of they brought

00:03:39.280 in changes to how how farms are operated and they've they've threatened now to do that once again

00:03:44.620 we know exactly what we'll get under the ndp we'll get an environment where people are are looking

00:03:50.120 thinking twice about staying here they we saw 13 quarters where people left our province we we saw a

00:03:56.360 decline in investment decline in revenue and decline in ability to pay for the things that people care

00:04:00.560 about that's what they're voting that's what the choice is they can vote for us and they'll have

00:04:05.340 the same stability that they have had over the the last four years knowing that we are going to keep

00:04:09.800 taxes low we're going to be relentlessly focused on jobs and economy and investment and bringing people

00:04:15.680 here and and creating an environment where we're going to continue to grow so that to me are the is the

00:04:21.800 two big choices in this election and i want people to to vote for another united conservative majority

00:04:25.920 government yeah so i found it interesting i honestly when i asked that question um the the notion i

00:04:36.440 heard the lesser of two evils two people actually before the event got started use that language with

00:04:41.480 me um that they're supporting daniel smith um some of them were flat out opposed to the ucp but now

00:04:46.600 they just really do not want the ndp in um so that that term is a term that i've heard very frequently

00:04:51.840 the lesser of two evils um i was kind of hoping daniel smith would be like no we're not evil

00:04:56.820 we're actually it was an opportunity for her to take a stronger position but i think in line with

00:05:02.420 the ucp strategy and i imagine this is the ucp strategy so many media outlets and rachel notley

00:05:08.240 are out there just launching personal attacks trying to stir up scandals i think their strategy is to

00:05:16.120 remain incredibly simple not potentially lob any softies out there that someone might

00:05:21.180 uh take and run with and create a new headline that all these outlets will run with i think

00:05:25.540 they're just trying to be safe and stay on message and stay on policy um virtually everything they go

00:05:30.820 back to is economy taxes jobs economy taxes jobs they always defer to those sort of talking points so

00:05:37.580 um again it was an answer it was a direct answer but i i feel like it wasn't maybe tackling

00:05:43.080 the issue uh as head-on it's not the american style politics of sort of bringing bringing their

00:05:48.760 personality into it they're like no no no let's just focus on the on the topics on the on the

00:05:53.180 policies what did you think well and to add to that especially over the last two years there's been

00:05:58.480 division and division and division every every corner of our lives have been like that through

00:06:03.360 the the covid era as it were um so i can understand you know trying to be as you know peaceful as

00:06:08.420 much of a firefighter as possible putting out the flames wherever they may arise

00:06:11.780 um so i can understand that sentiment to a large degree uh and especially because of that division

00:06:17.780 i mean during january and february we'll end up talking about this soon uh with the freedom convoy

00:06:24.360 the coups blockade all of these demonstrations that really shifted politics and now uh everyone kind of

00:06:30.740 just wants to take a break and relax and forget about the pandemic and move on and part of that moving

00:06:35.820 on process is going to be you know being a normal nice person that isn't trying to uh be too divisive

00:06:42.380 in a sense but also holding a firm line and the values that actually matter uh because if you don't

00:06:47.000 do that then you don't really represent anything and you know the lesser of two equals i understand that

00:06:51.540 uh to a degree a lot of people feel that way about politicians these days because nobody can provide

00:06:58.140 you exactly what you're looking for because we are all so unique we all have such different perspectives

00:07:03.440 um and to really capture everyone in one movement that is a difficult task yeah and i think i think

00:07:09.760 you hit the nail on the head there i think there's this notion of is it the lesser of two evils or is it

00:07:14.240 compromise to build this and we hear this term all the time i know it's the most like

00:07:17.920 over stated thing but build this big tent where everyone can feel included um and i think by focusing

00:07:24.520 on jobs by focusing on economy by getting more money in people's pockets and then getting away from

00:07:30.480 some of these other sort of contentious issues not that you or i might necessarily agree with that

00:07:34.900 but when you're trying to win an election um there may be some strategic merit to that now

00:07:39.820 particularly and as we said before it's magnified by the constant personal attacks

00:07:45.180 um that that daniel smith has been enduring so so the intention to simply sidestep that and move

00:07:51.640 forward um we'll talk about this a little bit as well but even on the whole notion rachel notley again

00:07:56.920 tweeted oh daniel smith is not taking questions um the there's just a dishonesty another thing and

00:08:03.740 we're going to talk about this it's it's one of the next questions i plan on asking the premier

00:08:07.300 the the ndp is also announcing announcements that are projects the ucp has already been working on

00:08:14.240 and the media doesn't call them out so it's almost like they're playing they're playing pool or

00:08:19.260 they're having a race but the the ucp with with the environment that's been created is running

00:08:23.640 uphill now there is a little bit of that when you are the current government you're you're you're

00:08:27.780 the one guarding the top of the the hill so um everyone's sort of coming for you but it is it is

00:08:35.040 it is interesting i know i know for lots of people out there who are extremely impassioned or are focused

00:08:40.020 on a sole issue the fact that daniel smith is maybe moving away from those issues whether it be amnesty

00:08:45.960 whether it be um some of the response or the purported and attempted responses to the covet 19

00:08:51.580 restrictions the the attempt to move away from that while for many people might be disheartening

00:08:57.280 or might prompt people to use this lesser of two evils terminology for others it might be well i guess

00:09:02.980 i can vote for them because i just want to focus on moving forward um rick bell actually asked an

00:09:07.740 interesting question on what the sort of threshold of that compromise is uh between abandoning sort of

00:09:14.420 the people who may have rallied and supported you uh with daniel smith being one of the prominent

00:09:18.480 sort of freedom oriented leaders who then won the leadership race and became premier and generally

00:09:23.900 winning the election the reality is is and daniel smith touched on this the the notion of lesser of

00:09:29.460 two evils ultimately what we what we have is there are other parties there may be parties that are more

00:09:33.540 principled out there certainly but it is likely based on all polling all numbers and all statistical

00:09:39.920 evidence that one of these two parties will form government um so i understand their efforts to

00:09:45.500 to sort of pave the broadest road that the most people feel comfortable voting for them um something

00:09:53.700 else you touched on and i think we'll transition into this next video clip here if you don't mind if

00:09:57.220 you don't have anything else but you touched on the notion of sort of division contention and one

00:10:02.600 thing that i've been i've been focusing on i had the opportunity to ask premier daniel smith about

00:10:06.460 was the united conservative party has in a sense been divided significantly um particularly under the

00:10:13.760 leadership of jason kenny not to necessarily say it was his exclusive his fault exclusively um but we

00:10:19.500 did see mla uh drew barnes mla todd lowen ejected from the party for criticizing the covet 19 response

00:10:26.820 um so i i asked daniel smith about what her leadership would look like and if mlas would be free to

00:10:33.140 sort of express their opinions and work on behalf of their constituents even if that broke from party

00:10:38.120 lines so i think we can jump to that clip now adam so it's rebel news one of the

00:10:43.560 potential causes of divide in the ucp over the past few years has been the inability of mlas

00:10:49.180 uh nominally drew barnes todd lowen to name a few to speak out when they disagree with leadership or

00:10:54.060 when they have personal concerns under daniel smith ucp will mlas be able to speak out and represent

00:10:59.320 their constituents well you know i i i prefer to be have a leadership style where um are if anyone has

00:11:06.420 a concern they can raise it with me directly and i'm very open to talking about how we can accommodate

00:11:12.380 different concerns we have an open and robust uh caucus discussion and we also have um the ability

00:11:20.100 to vote freely in our caucus and and our cabinet i i don't think we've encountered any circumstances

00:11:25.140 under my leadership where we haven't been able to resolve our our issues around certain circumstances

00:11:32.520 or certain pieces of legislation um but it seems to me like that process is working and i'm going to

00:11:38.580 continue working because i think if you treat people with respect they will treat you back with

00:11:42.400 respect so that's just my my leadership style i'm i'd need a specific example um if there's anything

00:11:48.060 in particular that you think that uh that hasn't hasn't lived up to that but i i think our i think

00:11:52.980 our mlas are really excited that we're part of a united conservative movement they have a lot of input

00:11:59.240 on in the decisions that we're bringing forward i can tell you some of the issues that we brought

00:12:02.560 forward today the agri uh agri food processing tax credit came out on the campaign trail when when

00:12:09.740 rebecca schultz said we need to do this and we did it uh we we have a number of our um of our uh our

00:12:17.320 mlas who are concerned that we're not recognizing international credentials it's the reason why we're

00:12:23.200 going to develop a fast track to affirming those it's uh everybody has raised concern about how do we

00:12:28.480 keep our kids here our graduates here and those are the issues that come out through the the caucus

00:12:33.540 and cabinet process and so we're announcing a tax credit today that will keep more of our graduates

00:12:37.960 here and attract more people here so all of these things uh are are really generated from the great

00:12:43.520 ideas of my caucus i think we've got a fabulous relationship and i'm going to keep that going

00:12:47.440 rick bell calgary sun

00:12:50.480 so what did you think of that uh that is responsive well i think a diversity of opinions is much more

00:12:59.260 important than a diversity of genders and i think in this sense daniel smith is doing the right thing

00:13:03.740 um you know i can't necessarily speak to all of her actions and all those private conversations and

00:13:09.540 the dealings that are going on with her and all of these mlas and other members however i do think it

00:13:14.460 is a fair thing to say the right approach is to take into consideration the needs of all of your

00:13:19.000 mlas of all of your members of the party including just the people who vote on the representatives not

00:13:24.340 just those who are political figures so the the more appreciative she is of all of those underneath

00:13:30.880 her and what they have to bring to the table i think the better off it'll be yeah and i think it

00:13:36.040 was interesting i i often what i'll do is i'll look to the uh folks behind the person answering the

00:13:42.720 question i know the other day for the first question basically every calgary mla was there here we had

00:13:47.560 quite a few mlas uh grant hunter among them um who i actually had an opportunity to speak with as well

00:13:52.940 on some of these issues but uh when when you're asking when you're asking that question you can

00:13:57.200 kind of gauge if if there's there's a sentiment and when i asked it you could tell all the sort of other

00:14:02.080 mlas were like i'm glad this is being asked because this obviously was a concern um drew barnes won't

00:14:07.620 be seeking re-election uh todd lowen i think is back in the fold with the ucp as well and he was he

00:14:12.320 pursued the leadership as well um so clearly some people who who were sort of chased away or were

00:14:18.340 excluded from the conversation have been brought back to the table and i think that really does

00:14:23.300 matter i think jason kenney would have been better served by having some of those other perspectives

00:14:28.460 at the table and maybe there would have been a more measured response to covet 19 and to some other

00:14:34.180 things i very often and i know when i talked to danielle smith um about this uh during the the sort of

00:14:40.440 leadership campaign we did that long walk through high river um and and we talked about the the lack

00:14:45.660 of feedback and sometimes leadership they get encircled by a small group of people um who very

00:14:52.060 often are either just echoing what the leader has to say or all share the same mentality and you

00:14:57.000 eventually end up being excluded from your broader uh from a broader influence a broader broader range

00:15:02.540 of ideas um and now i i get there's a balance a camel is a horse designed by committee if everybody gets

00:15:09.060 to weigh in you'll have chaos um but i do think that that having those counter perspectives having

00:15:14.000 as we've seen in this election the other side of the story as rebel media rebel news provides to the

00:15:19.280 mainstream media rather i think that matters even if you don't agree with us even if you're a hundred

00:15:24.800 percent on board with one thing or another hearing those alternative perspectives i think really

00:15:28.740 does matter well on what day did jason kenney go to coots for the blockades that were taking place

00:15:36.020 or milk river he never showed up right there were you know alleged conversations and negotiations

00:15:41.780 between mlas and you know local politicians and the demonstrators but never jason kenney himself and i

00:15:48.380 think that was a large reason for his uh stepping down uh and then his resignation from politics

00:15:55.120 thereafter is because he was taking such a hard line with the very voters who put him there he was

00:16:01.380 refusing to listen to them instead he was enforcing a lockstep mentality uh which i think just didn't

00:16:06.660 work for many people i mean these were you know there were thousands of people at these demonstrations

00:16:10.320 who had lost everything and jason kenney wouldn't even show his face to them so you know you need a

00:16:15.820 strong leader at the end of the day you need a strong leader and that's somebody who who takes

00:16:20.840 into consideration everybody who they're working for well and you know it was like jason kenney himself

00:16:28.220 to me i'm the one who asked him the question i think that clip factored into the fact that he's

00:16:32.760 no longer the premier um he said to me like oh well no we passed laws there's no such thing as a vaccine

00:16:37.940 passport he's like this is nuts you couldn't possibly conceive of us doing this and then like weeks

00:16:42.500 later he's like oh we have this uh alternatively named vaccine passport that isn't a vaccine passport

00:16:47.640 it looks like one it walks like one it quacks like one but it isn't a vaccine passport um and that

00:16:53.000 was weeks later and then after that i had the opportunity to question him um and he went on a bit of a

00:16:58.000 tirade about uh we don't need horse deworm like it was i'm like you're you're this it's it's almost a

00:17:04.560 little bit of what we see with justin trudeau where a year later he's like oh no people have

00:17:09.700 been injured and stuff and i'm quoting justin trudeau here youtube so um but it's it's they're

00:17:15.740 like no no that's not what i said that's not what happened um they've completely flipped the script

00:17:19.820 on something from from months ago um and then they're acting as though it never happened yeah there's

00:17:24.540 the clip right there um at the calgary stampede so the sentiment of oh no no this could never

00:17:28.680 this absolutely could never happen there's not going to be these vaccine passports and then and 0.78

00:17:32.760 then the script is is is flipped and mlas who were concerned about that are like no no no we we you

00:17:39.220 just told us that we were never going to do this and that this was illegal in this province they were

00:17:43.660 rightfully speaking out against that and i think if nothing else from this question from this answer

00:17:48.100 from daniel smith um it did sound like and commitments from premiers are what they're worth

00:17:53.380 um we saw jason canny go back and on but she did seem to suggest that mlas would be free to vote

00:17:58.940 and advocate for their constituents i think that is really solid uh and probably something that that

00:18:04.620 people particularly in the rural areas like to hear um this election we talked so much about how

00:18:08.740 it's going to be decided in calgary um calgary voters obviously and edmonton voters you look at the

00:18:14.280 progressive mayors um not perhaps as freedom oriented not perhaps as oriented towards conservatism

00:18:20.540 um so there is a concern that in the effort to pursue votes in calgary or edmonton rural issues

00:18:26.700 concerns and priorities might be disregarded so if those mlas in those rural areas are are guaranteed 1.00

00:18:32.400 by daniel smith this capacity to express their opinions freely i think that that that is promising

00:18:37.320 moving forward and may may uh prevent another leadership review in the near future well to express

00:18:42.980 their constituents opinions freely exactly right yes the most important thing yeah and you know on

00:18:48.760 that note uh i think we have another video coming up uh about coots and that situation as we just

00:18:54.400 described uh and daniel smith and some of the conversations she was supposedly having during

00:18:59.160 that time i'm not sure if we can uh pull to that clip now coots and uh and trudeau you know it's

00:19:05.480 i would love rob to talk to talk a bit about this because he's the lawyer and i'm not but this whole

00:19:11.100 phrase of peace order and good government i think it's become a shorthand to the federal government

00:19:16.240 can do whatever the heck it wants and we just have to be peaceful and orderly about it and that's not

00:19:20.620 in my view what it should be the federal government has said they want every federally regulated industry

00:19:26.380 to have vaccine mandates so that's broadcast media radio and television broadcast media is all the

00:19:32.420 telecom companies it's all of the grain elevators it's the ports it's um it's the banks and so are we

00:19:39.040 going to get to a point where to be able to get a bank account you're going to have to be vaccinated

00:19:44.600 because you won't be able to walk in the door i have no idea but the fact that this is just that

00:19:49.300 this is the line in the sand that's been drawn because the federal government has so much more

00:19:54.600 planned they have so much more coming and i think this is the reason why we want to see this win we

00:19:59.780 want to see it win so that they don't end up rolling out the full plan and we want to see it win

00:20:04.260 so that jason kenny scott mo together become the first premier to turn it around at the provincial

00:20:09.820 level so that other premiers will follow so the first thing i want to do here is tackle this is

00:20:17.100 obviously one of the countless clips of danielle smith often on on shows or or from her past radio

00:20:23.240 career discussing a subject but i think there's been a lot of sort of misinterpretation of what is

00:20:27.640 being said here um she quite clearly says that she wants a win for jason kenny and scott mo she's

00:20:35.160 not she's the sentiment is that she's saying she wants like a categorical win for the coots truck

00:20:39.200 which i i wouldn't have a problem with her saying that but i think what she's saying here is she

00:20:43.000 wants the politicians despite the federal's the federal government overstepping she wants these 0.99

00:20:49.200 politicians to to go listen to these people's concerns not just trample them not implement these

00:20:54.860 vaccine mandates uh and she wants some good to come of this she wants the provincial governments 0.82

00:20:59.720 uh which at the time jason kenny scott mo um to to have that win to prove that they listen to the

00:21:05.260 people and to prove that they can push back against this overreach from the federal government i also

00:21:10.000 find it interesting that that video clip should in no way shape or form be contentious press progress

00:21:16.380 very often seems to be seeking scandal where none should exist the sentiment being echoed here

00:21:22.660 that no one should be forced to be vaccinated justin trudeau said that within the last week

00:21:27.860 oh we never forced anybody we would never do that whatsoever jason kenny said that would

00:21:31.740 absolutely never happen and to almost everyone in this country the notion of forced vaccinations

00:21:37.580 or coerced vaccinations was entirely appalling and has been throughout this entire time until all

00:21:43.420 of a sudden progressives switched and said oh no big pharma is good and we absolutely have to be on

00:21:48.440 board with this um the sentiments she's relaying here are absolutely mainstream and absolutely

00:21:54.380 sentiments that that any politician should be able to carry freely in a free and sensible society

00:21:59.940 particularly one like canada that has so long advocated for individuals freedoms

00:22:04.860 well and on that note we do have some breaking news about the coots blockade uh that comes to us from

00:22:11.880 the democracy fund and you know a lot of people have heard you know there is the charges there is

00:22:16.020 you know alleged violence of the coots blockade and whatnot but today we have a story showcasing

00:22:21.300 that multiple fines have now been dropped for numerous truckers who are at the coots blockade

00:22:26.820 so this is coming to us you know just recently and i think this is a really great step you know

00:22:32.780 there was talk of amnesty uh from danielle smith but regardless of that it seems like this and the

00:22:39.420 democracy fund and their fight for these guys is paying off so i don't know adam what do you think

00:22:43.440 about this striking story yeah it's good you look right across the board um i know and i'm the one

00:22:49.360 that danielle smith initially made that promise to twice in fact that she would look into and pursue

00:22:54.160 amnesty um for for everyone involved with these vaccine mandates with covet 19 restriction now in in her

00:23:01.140 defense she did pursue them and she was basically informed it wasn't a was not a possibility um so as

00:23:06.520 far as her commitment to pursue these um i do feel she's honored that now do i feel like she's gone

00:23:11.900 all the way and the extent that she promised she'd combat these things and that these were evils

00:23:17.120 during the leadership campaign has she quite lived up to that no absolutely not and i think we could

00:23:21.160 all agree to that but sometimes it takes an appeal process sometimes it takes it takes years of legal

00:23:29.000 legal happenings um and unfortunately sometimes people spend a lot of time behind bars as a consequence

00:23:34.780 of these but on on many of these cases perhaps the most recent one and again there'll be an appeal

00:23:39.640 process with pastor arthur pavlovsky and the critical infrastructure defense act um most of

00:23:45.180 these charges whether it be for pastor james coates pastor tim stevens many of the people who are down at

00:23:50.340 the border uh the the courts are not entirely but largely getting these rights often on the appeal

00:23:57.300 process but lots of these charges that have been laid lots of the fines are going away um so there are

00:24:02.860 wins taking place and for those who are completely discouraged and did see some of the extremely

00:24:07.860 questionable decisions coming out of courts when it gets to the higher levels it does seem i mean maybe

00:24:13.300 i'm being optimistic but it does seem like the courts of law are starting to get some of this

00:24:17.880 these things right i think originally with the big push whether it be from the federal government

00:24:23.040 whether it be from media um people in courts they are they are human beings um and and and they can be

00:24:29.700 subject to those pressures and whims and the spirit of the age from society so i think for a time

00:24:35.000 there was there was sort of a sentiment within the courts that oh these people are extremists

00:24:38.620 um once they paused took a breath and started to look at the charter violations and extreme serious

00:24:44.680 concerns that were taking place uh they started to realize that that that this was problematic again

00:24:49.760 should any of these people have spent extensive time behind bars absolutely not but it is good to

00:24:55.980 see that the courts are starting to get some of this right again for those people who've lost years of

00:25:00.640 their life being involved in litigation is stressful um there's there's costs involved often we're able

00:25:07.000 to help whether it be through fight the fines or save art or many of these other uh efforts through

00:25:12.040 the democracy fund that we've been able to help these individuals but it is nonetheless a stressful

00:25:15.680 experience it should never have happened but it is good to see these good news stories coming out and

00:25:20.340 and some wins for these people who are simply standing up for their freedoms and oftentimes the

00:25:25.560 punishment is the process and we're seeing that a lot over the last two years right it may be that

00:25:31.040 somebody comes home at the end of the day you know proven innocent but you've still gone through the

00:25:35.300 punishment of having to go through the court cases having to pay through the lawyers it's it's a very

00:25:39.040 unfortunate thing to have to deal with for anybody and then you know we talk about those who've actually

00:25:43.140 spent time behind bars i mean there's still people who are serving time in pre-bail custody uh who have

00:25:48.760 not been found guilty of crimes yet they remain locked up it's it's a very unfortunate thing to say

00:25:55.000 in the state of canada and later on i just wanted to say later on i do want to talk at length about

00:26:01.400 uh some charges and some other things that have sort of evolved and the sort of layering double

00:26:06.020 standards and the degree of penalties that are being placed against people based on the nature of

00:26:10.320 their crimes but i'm getting ahead of us uh here certainly um do you think it's time probably for

00:26:15.500 us to jump for to a little bit of an ad break and then we'll come back with some uh some more

00:26:19.020 questions that's exactly what i was about to say perfect the media said that canadian truckers were

00:26:25.440 russian agents controlled by vladimir putin justin trudeau called them extremists the

00:26:32.140 small fringe minority we are here out of love for our families our communities and the government put

00:26:41.100 the country under martial law to stop them but what's the real story if you can't see the future in clear

00:26:47.980 outline right now you're not paying attention but the truckers in canada can't and i want you to

00:26:53.920 know that i'm not afraid for the first time the woman at the heart of the trucker convoy speaks out

00:26:58.820 tomara leach passionate organizer loving mother and grandmother proud matey and proud alberton

00:27:05.920 and defiant political prisoner jailed for daring to criticize the government

00:27:17.980 to merrill leach her new book hold the line my story from the heart of the freedom convoy is the

00:27:25.080 inside scoop of what really happened you've heard from the media and the convoy's critics now hear the

00:27:31.740 truth from the woman who inspired the world and made justin trudeau blink visit the convoy book.com

00:27:39.500 that's incredible but that book uh was like number one bestseller on amazon it's incredible and it's

00:27:53.560 really interesting for folks who haven't had a chance to meet uh tamara she's so just like nice 0.98

00:27:59.160 and calm and very tranquil person to be around so um and one of the many people who sort of got

00:28:05.400 not set out to become involved with this thing but i was at a recent event of hers and she said

00:28:11.940 you know for me it was like when they told me i couldn't go to my parents house that was sort of the

00:28:16.060 the line that she's like no no i have to do something but uh so anyhow reluctant heroes often

00:28:21.660 emerge so yeah if you haven't had a chance to pick up that book i'd do so right away yeah no it was uh

00:28:28.040 certainly an incredible read and the i mean what happened was truly an international phenomenon we

00:28:34.080 we started convoys literally around the world uh us canadians i say because you'll you'll talk to

00:28:39.820 as well is she started a small or she was part of the starting of a small movement that was going

00:28:45.600 to be driving across canada and what happened as it was driving across the country well tens of

00:28:50.420 thousands hundreds of thousands if not millions of people paid attention to that and they joined

00:28:54.800 they participated they actively invested in this movement it's uh it was truly an incredible thing

00:29:01.000 to come out of the unfortunate circumstances that were the pandemic yeah well and i'll get into this

00:29:08.020 next series of questions our uh our rebel reporter alex dolly well um he he got some good ones in as

00:29:14.960 well it's really nice and this is the interesting thing despite this sentiment realistically when you're

00:29:19.620 at one of these pressers um there's like 15 20 people in line um and some people if you're one

00:29:26.400 follow-up they'll ask several follow-ups um the premier is on a tight schedule very often she's 0.62

00:29:31.800 uh scheduled to be three hours away in three hours as an event wraps up so um i don't necessarily think

00:29:38.640 that it's a spin when she says i i'm going to take one question to try and get to more outlets because

00:29:43.560 there's usually a lineup but that being said i i met these events we have other reporters at these

00:29:48.960 events they make sure that everyone can get a question and so uh on that note i suppose we can just

00:29:53.940 jump to the first question here about the federal carbon tax uh alex dolly will rebel news uh my

00:29:59.900 first question is um in a cbc interview uh in october premier daniel smith uh opened the possibility

00:30:07.260 of the province relitigating the constitutionality of the federal carbon tax with the supreme court of

00:30:12.800 canada now have there been any further conversations as to whether that will be pursued in the near future

00:30:18.480 well listen uh this government the ucp is always going to stand up for albertans and the carbon tax

00:30:25.020 is something that puts a tax on everything and makes life more expensive for albertans and especially

00:30:29.840 for albertans when you take into consideration uh how everybody else is dealing with the carbon tax

00:30:35.800 and especially when you take into consideration this particular issue of electricity and the

00:30:39.680 electricity grid this is going to hurt albertans harder than it's going to hurt anybody else in

00:30:43.700 canada except for maybe saskatchewan and we need to make sure that albertans realize this before

00:30:47.580 election day how significant this promise is by rachel notley

00:30:50.800 down with the carbon tax yeah that's about it that's the extent of it you know it's and this

00:31:01.880 is i mean i'm not even speaking to this particular issue but just broadly speaking like it's just

00:31:08.120 daniel smith just needs to say enough is enough put an end to this you don't get to throw money at

00:31:14.820 this i mean you don't get to throw money in a problem like the environment and and have it be

00:31:19.940 fixed it's also incredibly rich because we have people from cities progressive cities that are

00:31:25.080 literally just pouring uh sewer waste directly into the ocean pollution pollution on levels that that

00:31:32.360 that a city like calgary couldn't imagine um and realistically while while we may be producing

00:31:39.100 these resources they're the ones burning them um so it's it's incredibly rich for them to be like oh

00:31:45.240 yeah we need to take some more of your money to help the environment um this is part of it's two

00:31:51.100 prong one is to to consolidate more wealth among them and their friends um it's a power grab you can't

00:31:58.220 throw money i mean you can throw money at new technologies but that's not what most of this is about

00:32:03.080 this is they they they're buying votes by giving you a credit back you get your 400 bucks and you're

00:32:08.220 like wow this is great not realizing you've spent a small fortune on these carbon tax costs it's part

00:32:14.520 of the perpetual inflation being driven by this government and and the amount of inside contracts

00:32:21.480 and deals that are being dealt in these sorts of industries that are not practical most people can't

00:32:26.660 afford an electric car right now most people can't afford more than more than when justin trudeau got in

00:32:32.220 in fact most people can't afford solar panels um these technologies that are starting to emerge

00:32:37.480 they're not accessible to people because life is becoming unaffordable i think and this is strictly

00:32:42.480 theoretical though but if justin trudeau would have never been in office and there wouldn't have been

00:32:47.180 a concerted push some of this technology is getting to the point where solar panels can offset your

00:32:53.120 electricity bill and if you're only a short distance commuter electric cars can be can be okay

00:32:59.560 they do certain things pretty well tesla's certainly some some nice features to them um i feel if there

00:33:05.360 if this wouldn't have been politicized and if these green technologies would have been just left to

00:33:11.220 compete on the open market rather than pushed by carbon tax there's such a negative connotation around

00:33:16.840 them i think we probably would have had more green technology as a society at this point under a

00:33:21.660 conservative government than we have now under justin trudeau yeah i think to say the least i mean we're

00:33:27.460 actually investing in innovation in the energy industry around the world we are one of the key

00:33:33.120 players and we have so much resource available that it's almost unprecedented and we're not actually

00:33:39.820 like when was the last time you heard about slave labor in canada you know a lot of the rare earth

00:33:45.020 minerals and a lot of the resources that go into these you know fancy environmentalist tools such as

00:33:51.140 solar panels and whatnot uh or large batteries i should say how much of this is using slave labor

00:33:56.760 right you know i and personally i i'm a little more worried about slave labor than i am about

00:34:02.180 environmentalism you know yes sure you want to take care of your environment as any one would you

00:34:07.600 know we are the custodians of canada we don't want to burn all of our forests and be left with nothing

00:34:12.620 we want to take care of our environment that's a normal thing to do but this environmentalism you know

00:34:18.280 the mantra of the world is going to turn into a ball of fire unless we do everything we can to

00:34:23.220 stop everyone from doing anything it's not going to work yeah and there is also these people are

00:34:29.220 making deals and buying electricity from china with these massive coal plants and they're china india

00:34:35.180 those places are polluting on a level that we don't we don't we're insignificant we could all

00:34:39.740 disappear as canada and it would not make a meaningful difference whatsoever probably some of these 0.91

00:34:44.000 people would love to see all of canada disappear but uh it's it's it's so just glaringly hypocritical 0.91

00:34:51.320 and and there's a there's an absurd double standard there people who are flying private jets around that

00:34:56.560 consume more uh energy than i will in in a year in a day um and and yet we're supposed to feel feel

00:35:04.300 terrible and give a bunch of money to this uh it's not it's one of the current sort of

00:35:09.340 lies that society has accepted um these lies are on numerous fronts but it's it's the general sort

00:35:18.240 of progressivism slash socialism uh perspective or mindset that has become so prevalent within parts

00:35:25.840 of europe and within north america um that if you look at these issues whether it be on gender whether

00:35:31.520 it be on the environment whether it be on uh the economy um if you look at them through any sort of

00:35:36.820 critical lens if you look at them through through any context of history whatsoever you'd realize

00:35:43.060 they're false if you looked at them through the lens of science you'd realize that these things

00:35:46.240 are not tangible but they've simply been accepted because one the mainstream media pushes them and

00:35:52.200 they're bought and paid for state-funded media certainly and then two the government is just

00:35:56.620 legislating this and they're really gaslighting people into thinking if you disagree with this you're

00:36:01.200 crazy it's similar to what we saw with these vaccine mandates that one month they were completely

00:36:05.260 unthinkable and then a month later they were they were the law of the land um so i think this is part

00:36:12.160 of a general cultural shift that needs to take place to get away from this um it is is an affirmation

00:36:19.000 of facts an affirmation of reality and a rejection of all this stuff that has been pushed because when

00:36:24.040 you look at this like you said there's there's slave labor um you you see these cities that are just

00:36:29.220 pouring sewage into oceans um you see mass pollution there are these issues that can be tackled

00:36:34.780 directly but on lots of those issues there's not a lot of money to be made so they aren't

00:36:39.480 tackling them um they only seem to bring these issues to light when there's some way for them

00:36:44.220 to increase a tax you know what let's cap montreal and vancouver's uh sewer drainage into the ocean

00:36:49.740 let's do that i'm 100 for that um focus on replanting initiatives so that areas aren't being clear

00:36:54.940 cut 100 let's do that um giving money to the government so that they can have these green

00:37:00.880 initiatives and give people carbon tax refunds no absolutely not not interested carbon tax refunds

00:37:08.920 isn't that just rich it's like yeah okay we're going to take your money and we're but we're not

00:37:13.260 going to tell you that part we're just going to say that you're getting the refund you're getting a

00:37:15.960 little bit of money back oh where'd the money come from oh it came out of your own pocket

00:37:19.320 oh man gas is really expensive these days at least i got that 382 bucks from justin trudeau

00:37:24.860 yeah yeah at least i got a tiny bit of the money i gave to the government back

00:37:28.820 yeah exactly and just to think how much of the money is squandered in like beer it's not just they

00:37:34.040 took thousands of dollars from me they gave 400 back they they lost probably they paid people to

00:37:39.940 lose it yeah they paid people to lose it bureaucracy typical um should we get into this uh sort of next

00:37:46.780 and i think part of this this segues and ties in nicely the the capacity for media to ask questions

00:37:53.580 to challenge and i think the requirement for politicians to be held accountable and to answer

00:38:00.000 questions is critical because for the longest time justin trudeau rachel notley some of these other people

00:38:04.860 have been excluding divergent opinions have been excluding tough questions they're only letting their

00:38:09.280 friends in to the party um and we're seeing that it's a serious uh topic of of discussion within this

00:38:15.520 province um so let's let's get into this next video where alex asked about uh the the certain

00:38:21.700 the kicking out of certain journalists from media events by rachel notley uh so in uh recent weeks

00:38:27.600 we've seen the official opposition um pick winners and losers in terms of uh which members of the press

00:38:33.780 they will take questions from recently we saw uh rachel notley kick out uh keem bexty and myself

00:38:39.380 from a press briefing uh in downtown calgary now can we get a commitment from the ucp that they will

00:38:45.320 allow all members of the press regardless of where they land on the spectrum um that their questions

00:38:51.760 will be answered and they will have that opportunity to ask those questions our team and our leader have

00:38:56.780 been committed to taking questions from all media outlets we saw that earlier this week at our

00:39:01.900 very exciting campaign announcement to reduce personal income taxes for albertans premier continues to

00:39:07.720 take questions from media on a daily basis as do we and as you see here today we're happy to take

00:39:13.200 questions from all media outlets thank you next question in person

00:39:17.640 yep well and on that note i wonder if we can actually pull up the clip of him being kicked out

00:39:25.880 of the uh ndp uh session that they had which she referenced because it is truly amazing and i watched

00:39:33.960 that and i just laughed because what not only did she kick out uh the counter signal she kicked out rebel

00:39:39.140 news she also refused questions of the if i have it correct the western standard and uh calgary sun

00:39:44.600 right probably four of the main uh outlets that would be on the other side of the aisle let's say

00:39:51.900 uh from the ndp and she she refuses all of them and then she goes on to say we take questions from

00:39:57.440 the media all journalists or whatnot how it's yeah here it is let's just take a look at that if we can

00:40:03.200 the mayor of calgary whatever what they do is is their bailiwick right it's not they do with us

00:40:08.300 right so you can understand that what they choose to do is within their purview all i'm i'm just a

00:40:12.960 you know i'm just a message about here i appreciate that but uh you know i think that it's totally

00:40:17.480 reasonable that i'm here i mean it may very well be do you work for the party uh we're contractors

00:40:22.220 but so you're contractors security contractors to stop media from asking the ex-premier questions

00:40:26.420 i'm not stopping anybody from asking anything i'm just well you are you are stopping well push comes to shove

00:40:30.700 i mean we can get into a debate here i don't want to get into a debater i don't want i don't want to

00:40:34.900 give you a debate here all i'm saying you can do to avoid any any hassle is that uh you're not going

00:40:40.400 to entertain your questions so i'm not going to entertain my questions so it's as plain as that

00:40:44.180 that's the ndp position that's right okay let's take it we'll go this way okay yeah it's the the thing

00:40:53.580 that makes us the most like absurd and the most upsetting and it is the justin trudeau thing where he's

00:40:59.680 like tweeting about like we support all journalists and journalists are integral to

00:41:02.920 rachel notley has been condemning danielle smith left right and center for not taking media questions

00:41:09.620 while doing this it's it's insane and the fact that her her followers which is what i'm going to call

00:41:16.780 them not supporters followers believe her is absolutely wild even david staples i believe from

00:41:22.640 the edmonton journal and the edmonton journal is notoriously left-leaning for most people i think would

00:41:28.160 agree um he was excluded from their mailing lists and they were they weren't taking some of his

00:41:33.020 questions i think that's been sorted out and the other day rachel notley did say she would actually

00:41:37.360 take questions from anybody um except the western standard until they apologize over something so

00:41:42.440 we'll see if that that remains true um i believe alex is heading to to an event in the next day or two

00:41:47.940 here so we'll see if they actually honor that and take questions but it's just like double speak it's

00:41:54.420 it's orwellian what we're seeing rachel notley the media even the amount of times we've heard

00:41:59.680 questions from the media about why they're only taking one question she's taking questions from

00:42:05.860 everybody she's taking multiple questions from outlets i even know the other day they were running

00:42:10.120 tight on time and i was in line um and they were like make sure they get their questions the ucp because

00:42:15.540 they don't want to be associated with that exclusion um people who believe this out there i'm

00:42:20.820 really sorry if you've actually adopted and embraced this narrative that rachel notley is the

00:42:26.080 one being held accountable to media and daniel smith is not um i can testify personally every event

00:42:32.040 i've gone to i've had the opportunity to ask daniel smith questions furthermore when i approach the ucp

00:42:37.060 asking to speak to an mla uh often they've been ministers on certain uh on certain issues they'll go

00:42:44.340 and ensure that we have the opportunity to ask those people questions as well if one party is hiding

00:42:50.080 from the media in this election it is rachel notley i suspect though that people are getting wise to

00:42:56.320 this despite the media efforts to sort of be complicit in it despite rachel notley's incessant

00:43:01.660 tweeting even i think today or yesterday stating oh well we we take all questions daniel doesn't

00:43:06.640 i think rachel is starting to realize this might be backfiring and maybe that's what part of that

00:43:11.900 statement about oh yeah we're going to take questions uh moving forward yeah there you go this is

00:43:17.220 and there was another one today there's there's several tweets just like this while she's

00:43:23.340 literally the audacity to literally kick journalists out and then tweet this it's it's i mean it's

00:43:28.880 trudeauian is the only term i can come up with yeah no right now it seems like daniel smith is putting

00:43:35.160 out other people's fires and rachel notley's putting out her own fires so you know let her let her keep 1.00

00:43:40.080 doing that you know i i saw the language that the alberta ndp used during the the freedom convoy

00:43:45.240 movement and those kinds of demonstrations the the language that they were using the rhetoric

00:43:49.240 that they would use towards people who literally lost everything because of government policies

00:43:53.380 and then they would speak against those government policies or advocate for a different stance or a

00:43:58.460 different method and they would be getting called they would they would be called terrorists yeah it

00:44:03.020 would be called violent extremists for for what for losing everything and trying to get something

00:44:08.020 back trying to have something in their lives right trying to be able to go to a restaurant

00:44:12.300 trying to have a restaurant where you can serve people regardless of your vaccine status i mean

00:44:16.800 people were losing everything and and the kind of double speak that we're seeing now uh you know

00:44:21.560 in a sense i'm not surprised right they'll they'll say one thing and they believe something entirely

00:44:27.280 different and you know back in the day though they showed their true colors and i don't think there's

00:44:32.060 any going back from that people just have to be reminded well and i think again you hit the nail on the

00:44:36.960 head there because there's this underlying it's like they can't escape their underlying guilt and

00:44:42.520 they can't escape revealing what they know they're doing wrong their activists the people associated

00:44:48.760 with them whether it be climate activists whether it be um the the the unions who condemn the freedom

00:44:54.960 convoys and then they were striking and engaging in in far worse activity kicking cars all that sort of

00:45:00.780 stuff that we saw um but their political activists are paid political activists who often use

00:45:08.620 intimidation to gain a political end which there's a definition for that but i won't i won't call those

00:45:13.760 people that um on the other side on the side of the freedom convoy you had people who they called

00:45:20.560 terrorists who were working class people with no history or virtually no history of political 1.00

00:45:26.080 activism tamara leach among them um who were pushed and pushed and pushed told they couldn't see their

00:45:32.220 families as you said their businesses went under and they said enough is enough like we're trying to

00:45:37.020 survive here people are losing their lives we saw depression we saw all of these issues and so these

00:45:42.200 people sort of reluctantly took a stand because things had just gone too far and they vilified those

00:45:48.340 people but i think there was the underlying knowledge that they're the ones who have the political

00:45:53.340 activists who are maybe pushing a little bit too far they're the ones not taking questions from the

00:45:57.940 media um they're the ones overstepping and violating rights um i i think that there is an underlying guilt

00:46:03.380 with lots of these people and it surfaces in these hypocritical statements and tweets like the one we just

00:46:08.720 saw from rachel notley well and you know before we get to some of the next stuff we have adam as

00:46:13.760 somebody who i just recently came to alberta of course during the the era of the covet whatnot uh what was it

00:46:20.220 like before with i mean she was in power before how was it what what was the the feel of the room

00:46:26.180 in a sense yeah so i think i think once they got in um they sort of backed off and quieted down don't

00:46:34.180 get me wrong um that we saw like uh back in 2018 we saw the the ban abortion bubble zone stuff there was

00:46:41.180 some sort of uh progressive inclination and a push towards that but i think they may have once in power

00:46:49.120 adopted a similar strategy to the ucp while they're like well we have the spot now so let's not

00:46:55.200 overtly uh generate scandals now economically they were bad as daniel smith mentioned in one of those

00:47:00.620 video clips for quarters we saw people leaving the province instead of coming in which was anomalous

00:47:06.420 for alberta um and it was economically not a good time it was as far as progressivism achieving

00:47:14.580 problematic ends um that some of that was happening but i think and don't get me wrong i never advocate

00:47:20.900 for an ndp government um i think that they scaled back once they were in power a little bit so so it

00:47:28.200 certainly wasn't good um but i think people were far more afraid it would be far more cataclysmic than

00:47:33.860 it was now far more cataclysmic than aggressive progressive agendas being pushed and the economy

00:47:39.020 struggling is pretty bad um and and and i remember before that election the sentiment of this orange

00:47:44.620 crush winning was like well that can't actually happen i think i think when they won they were

00:47:50.480 shocked i think lots of their candidates who won weren't ready for the office i don't think they

00:47:55.060 were a particularly silly government or particularly ready government so they they were they were it was 0.81

00:48:01.640 kind of silly it was like a mishmash of people with political ideologies but they didn't have the 0.96

00:48:06.380 the perhaps the capacity to do as much as they did now that's the concerning part their their war

00:48:12.980 chests are full they're organized now they've had time to prepare they've had a taste of power and then

00:48:18.540 lost it i have a serious concern that this time around they will be prepared they will be armed

00:48:25.100 and they will be ready and they will likely do more as we saw with the net zero grid purported to cost

00:48:31.620 something like 87 billion dollars i think their ambitions because last time i don't think

00:48:36.160 i don't think they until the very end thought that they really had a chance of winning um now that

00:48:41.620 they're like oh we're really in this we've done this before we can swing calgary i'm concerned that

00:48:46.660 that they might be ready to take steps that would be far more permanently damaging to the province

00:48:51.700 well and and what was the the reasoning for their victory last time i've heard some say that it was

00:48:56.780 kind of like a surprise or it was a a vote against the ucp rather than a vote for the ndp

00:49:02.200 100 yeah it was basically protest votes um the sort of uh redford uh there was a bunch of scandals

00:49:08.400 which by by comparison to justin trudeau or rachel notley today would be fairly minimal but uh there

00:49:15.060 there was certainly a sense of entitlement the ucp had been in power for so long there's a whole sky

00:49:19.200 palace incident um there were so many sort of just like factors that reeked of entitlement and and old

00:49:26.280 old boys or not old not that it was a boy but that old boy mentality of we're politicians we can get

00:49:31.380 away with everything people were just sick of that eventually there is a sentiment that that

00:49:35.480 there needs to be changed progressive progressives play on this they're always they're always saying

00:49:39.640 oh we need to change the change things can be going perfectly and they'll be advocating for the change

00:49:44.140 um but yeah it was a protest vote but it wasn't entirely unmerited the the criticisms and concerns

00:49:51.520 were valid and i think that that carried over a little bit um into what we saw with the ucp under

00:49:58.000 jason kenney um many of those sort of old voices many of that uh many of the sort of strategies

00:50:04.860 and expectations um from politicians i think they carried over into the united conservative party

00:50:11.400 um i think they've been quelled a number of the candidates who were around back in those days

00:50:15.840 um or at least towards the end of those days um they're not seeking re-election now um lots of new

00:50:22.180 young sort of blood being uh brought into the united conservative party so um i think that there was

00:50:27.500 still a bit of purging to do from that that rebellion or protest vote um again though really

00:50:33.960 you we've talked about this you have to swing calgary and if you look at our mayor uh extremely

00:50:39.040 progressive edmonton is going to vote with the the ndp rural regions will vote with the ucp generally

00:50:46.900 speaking it comes down to calgary to decide and we we saw with our municipal elections that calgary

00:50:52.780 can be won over by her progressive ideas unfortunately now beyond that there is there's

00:50:58.540 arguments about whether there's vote splitting or or whatever occurred there for god gondek to to gain

00:51:03.100 power but last time ultimately they won through calgary and if they're able to do it again uh if

00:51:08.300 they're able to gain power again the ndp it'll again be through calgary oh and this is a bit of a

00:51:13.660 silly question but what about the liberal party here in alberta not not particularly you mean alberta

00:51:17.840 liberals or the federal liberals not particularly popular which makes it surprising that we do see

00:51:24.220 the the sort of strong contingency but i think it is all of alberta is profoundly conservative and

00:51:29.160 probably more than half of calgary and then because there was quite a bit of vote splitting and then

00:51:34.420 the edmonton with so many government officials working there um that would be one of the places

00:51:39.060 that is that is far more uh liberally inclined um i know we're running tight on time i'm sure we do

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00:53:46.480 consider when we're looking back to that ndp victory uh would be the divide that took place between the wild

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00:55:16.920 rebel news community today i just wanted to add that in there quickly but more importantly uh there's

00:55:22.740 charges laid in a string of deliberately set fires in alberta and of course over the last two years there

00:55:28.500 was a lot of uh i guess you call it arson against churches that happened across the country adam i know

00:55:34.740 you've been really close to this story do you want to give us the details yeah so uh and i know

00:55:39.600 some of the vandalism our next story we're going to touch on that as well though um lots of this being

00:55:45.220 being sort of investigated it's interesting last night on social media and this is not necessarily

00:55:49.440 confirmed yet but i did see a number of people stating that that like a series of fires was being

00:55:55.260 set even along highways um so there is clearly obviously it wasn't this individual because they've

00:55:59.740 now been detained um but but some of these fires taking place i know we saw at six second nation

00:56:04.840 there was an attempted fire fortunately the church was saved but there was damage um fires being set

00:56:10.140 at random spots but also uh we saw that we saw the church i believe it was in bonnieville burnt down

00:56:15.120 significant massive issues um are taking place when you have churches being burnt down i know in

00:56:21.420 in ontario a while back justin there was there's a bit of vandalism on a mosque and justin trudeau

00:56:25.900 went there straight away he's yet to visit some of these locations where churches have been burnt down

00:56:31.140 um it's particularly heart-wrenching because in many of these communities um the the church most

00:56:36.360 recently that burned down was the latter-day saints church um but i know for example one of the churches

00:56:41.400 in calgary that that fell fell victim to arson was a vietnamese community church so they escaped

00:56:47.540 persecution in in communist vietnam come to canada seeking this new like seeking religious freedom

00:56:53.380 and then no association whatsoever with the residential schools they weren't here their church wasn't

00:56:59.120 established here but they fall victim to this uh arson um i believe on this case uh they don't

00:57:07.880 there hasn't been a direct affirmation that this was a hate motivated incident unless there's been new

00:57:13.700 new developments on this but regardless someone setting fires near or around churches and those

00:57:18.400 churches going up in flames well that should be international or the very least national news this is an

00:57:24.300 absolutely massive story but it doesn't particularly feed into any sort of narrative um so so i think

00:57:30.720 unfortunately while there is news coverage of this um it's not to the degree that that i think would

00:57:36.200 be appropriate no well to say the least and you know maybe the silver lining here is that we're at least

00:57:42.660 not as a country arresting pastors anymore for hosting church services it may still be certainly

00:57:49.240 unfortunate that there are arsonist vandals who are acting very inappropriately towards these facilities

00:57:54.680 but at least it's not the government doing it this time uh not uh yeah sorry well and i i you just

00:58:01.760 touched on something perfect there the the next story that that definitely ties into this pretty strongly

00:58:07.120 and it's another one that we covered very closely was the string of vandalism that we saw at churches

00:58:13.380 across calgary um not arson in these cases but paint being splattered all over these churches

00:58:19.200 um so the individual who they they identified some time ago has finally had their sort of court

00:58:24.760 uh matters um settled and they they've they've confirmed that they were involved in four churches

00:58:31.700 whether they were in coordination with other people i think it was something like 11 churches

00:58:36.320 were targeted in total um but here we have the four churches um that were that were vandalized

00:58:42.180 painted um some of the churches left the paint up some of it's already been cleaned up but they get

00:58:47.040 three months to be served at home for committing numerous hate crimes across the city meanwhile we

00:58:55.440 saw numerous pastors in jail for months for opening their churches and refusing to eject people um in some of

00:59:04.260 these cases they weren't they weren't forcing people to be masked they had safety measures in place

00:59:08.940 but i just want to point out the absurd and glaring double standard there you can go around committing

00:59:15.280 and being charged on hate motivated crimes vandalizing numerous churches and you get to stay at home for

00:59:23.820 a couple months obviously i'm sure there's there's more restrictions in place and nobody wants that

00:59:28.020 but that is a serious crime i guarantee you if that had happened to a mosque that person would be in jail

00:59:33.720 period and i also find it absolutely absurd that these court systems can see fit to keep pastors

00:59:41.680 with virtually no criminal history whatsoever or no criminal history whatsoever behind bars for months

00:59:48.240 as dangerous people and then actual criminals like these who aren't who aren't violating sort of

00:59:54.360 impromptu fly-by-night covid-19 restrictions but are committing hate crimes they get a slap on the

01:00:00.740 wrist and they get to stay at home yeah welcome to canada right that seems to be uh the new motto at

01:00:06.980 least under our current prime minister justin trudeau uh and of course as much as it is the the pastors

01:00:12.480 across the country uh as well i remember my time in quebec uh in montreal there's a community there

01:00:18.620 in outrema and their synagogues uh were being targeted by the spvm the local police uh they were

01:00:24.020 being harassed in all sorts of ways it's it's very unfortunate but it is it is certainly a good thing

01:00:29.420 that the government has decided to you know take a step back from that angle at least and you know

01:00:34.700 unfortunately these individuals have still you know committed these crimes against and it is good

01:00:39.640 that there is some justice that is being brought even if it isn't necessarily the the the what has

01:00:45.200 been sought by everyone yeah yeah it is it is again it's one of these cases of eventually

01:00:50.020 the courts hopefully getting it right hopefully that is what we're seeing here but they what they

01:00:57.440 did with these pastors is send a message um that's what they were doing they were very clearly making an

01:01:02.860 example and once all of a sudden done most of these charges sort of dissipated um they wanted to make

01:01:07.500 an example what example does it set when christian largely christian churches are being targeted across

01:01:15.400 the country i think we're into the i think we're we're nearly 70 now or more churches places of worship

01:01:22.680 have been targeted either by vandalism or arson there's clearly an emerging trend of anti-christian

01:01:28.760 sentiment in this country and in here in this province what message does it send when in the

01:01:34.320 face of that you get a slap on the wrist that that is a serious concern for me and it's reflective of

01:01:40.340 the general anti-christian sentiment within society um it seems like a perfect opportunity to throw to

01:01:45.680 save the christians but i think we're we're wrapped on time and we do want to get to people's chats here

01:01:51.120 so should we get into that right away absolutely you want me to do the uh speed read sure go for it

01:01:56.400 all right five dollars good to see you back adam smith 2023 uh that's from uh mike freedom honey

01:02:01.820 on uh rumble let's see here from i think there was one before that yep i'm doing that one right now

01:02:07.500 from the odyssey chat great to see sos regularly again uh not sure where he went in recent months

01:02:13.500 i'm planning to move my entire family from ontario to alberta go danielle smith she better change 1.00

01:02:19.000 alberta law to protect our fundamental natural rights from uh restitutor orbis from our odyssey chat

01:02:26.140 adam do you want to chime in on that i was with my kids a little baby was hanging out so yeah it's

01:02:31.700 it was it was really good uh wonderful to work for a company like rebel news that is so family first

01:02:36.740 they very much practice what they preach so i was working a ton during the lockdown restrictions all

01:02:41.940 that stuff and you only get this opportunity to spend time with the kids once so uh they're very

01:02:47.100 gracious to let me spend some time with the kids before getting back at it but i am back and in full

01:02:51.780 force and very much looking forward to it we'll be seeing you as i mentioned every week on friday

01:02:56.060 for these special sort of alberta editions of this live stream and yeah look forward to my reports

01:03:01.760 albertadecides.com is the spot to cover uh and to catch all of our coverage of the alberta election

01:03:06.600 next up from jcmn84 ten dollars thank you very much and thank everybody for their donations

01:03:12.500 uh he sends us a link here here's how long covid19 vaccine immunity really lasts

01:03:18.220 a study quantifies how much vaccine protection drops over time and makes case for boosters and

01:03:24.280 pardon me makes a case for boosters and he tells us this is a uh a meta analysis that's been posted

01:03:30.920 recently of 50 studies that show vaccine effectiveness all right and again from jcmn84 ten dollars again

01:03:38.620 thank you uh omicron drops 20 six months post primary series and only 30 post booster at nine months

01:03:45.820 bc pho dr bonnie henry mandated on health care workers implemented uh fail 2021 only for primary

01:03:55.040 series all right ten dollars from jcmn84 thank you again uh where is the justification for ongoing

01:04:01.460 bc mandates based on current science today the world health organization declares an end to the

01:04:07.140 covid19 global health emergency adam do you want to touch base on that i don't think there is a

01:04:12.340 justification um that this is the government that uh you can go by crack on the street and has

01:04:18.640 vaccine mandates um so their justification is in their internal logic which i would say is deeply

01:04:24.000 flawed actually maybe that's uh the last thing we should show is that quick little image from bc so

01:04:29.860 we can feel good about how things are in alberta um there is a drugstore i think they actually got

01:04:34.480 shut down today by police maybe i need to be corrected on that uh but they had started to sell

01:04:39.880 math heroin uh cocaine and crack um and it was all uh pure drugs and there was it was fentanyl free

01:04:48.440 as it said underneath uh and i think we have that tweet coming up here yeah so yeah not in alberta

01:04:55.620 but in bc adam are you uh are you thinking this is something rachel notley's gonna bring here

01:05:01.080 oh i'm gonna open up my own uh shop once rachel notley wins and brings it in we're gonna do great

01:05:05.880 i'm gonna be moving uh moving volumes so i guess the guy was arrested here but nevertheless this does

01:05:12.680 speak to to the mentality and what's wild is while this may have in fact been illegal and the guy doing

01:05:18.700 this was arrested you can read the responses find that tweet go check out erin gun's tweet a bunch of

01:05:25.600 other people have commented on it and the responses are actually from lots of progressive bc residents

01:05:31.160 if you follow their profiles you'll no doubt see who they support and they're actually in favor of

01:05:36.300 this the only sane response to this is that it's wild but you'll see people citing studies from

01:05:42.580 portugal about how decriminalization and legalization of these drugs work and you'll see

01:05:48.780 just comments about how this is good and it's better than prescription drugs and so it's it's something

01:05:53.920 and see what you will about that but the fact that the comments to this were anything other than

01:05:59.140 than shock even the government this government has now realized that that that this is wrong he's been

01:06:04.020 arrested but arrested but the the fact that people were were on board with this and were tweeting in

01:06:09.660 support of this and were condemning people criticizing this as as old-fashioned is is pretty laughable

01:06:14.940 and paints a pretty accurate picture of uh of of these people's mindsets well i hope our viewers come up

01:06:22.320 with a really great name for your new store that you're going to open once uh nollie wins i look

01:06:27.380 forward to seeing some of those otherwise i think uh it's probably time for us to tune out is there

01:06:31.240 anything we're missing i think we're all set thanks for everyone uh for for tuning in really appreciate

01:06:36.280 it and looking forward to uh touching base with you on a weekly uh weekly schedule moving forward

01:06:41.000 all right take care everyone i am now joined by mla for calgary acadia and minister of justice

01:06:48.840 tyler shandro uh you you've garnered i imagine quite a bit of support for particularly in the

01:06:54.620 firearms community the sort of stand you've taken standing up for albertans rights against

01:06:59.060 justin trudeau now what are the plans to continue those efforts and to take a stand if the ucp is

01:07:04.220 elected to continue leadership well there's a lot of opportunities in the alberta firearms act for

01:07:09.120 future governments to be able to look at and be flexible see what the trudeau government is

01:07:13.880 planning to do and how they unveil the confiscation program and to be able to act quickly through

01:07:18.840 regulation so it's a matter of looking at what their next steps are we heard that they may be uh

01:07:24.980 again trying to uh to unveil further details uh and particularly the next month or two so we uh had

01:07:31.700 our second regulation that that we have uh passed under the alberta firearms act uh for the requirement

01:07:37.280 for a seizure agent to get licensed so that's a second step and we'll just be nimble continue to

01:07:42.100 look at what they do and then react to it now is there sort of a very real concern that if the ndp

01:07:47.040 is elected they could come in do it with all this and we could see firearms being confiscated by the

01:07:52.420 rcmp in fairly short order absolutely and and i think that's always been a worry that the uh firearms

01:07:57.440 community has had they've always had to uh to know that they're always one election away from from

01:08:03.140 being targeted by any future provincial or federal government and i think that's why they're so

01:08:07.280 concerned with this election now finally in order for the ucp to win uh there are a number of sort of

01:08:12.080 contingent constituencies but yours particularly and right across calgary they are very much the

01:08:17.860 battlegrounds that will determine who wins this election what do you think the key issues are that

01:08:21.980 the ucp need to win on jobs and the economy and that's the number one thing people ask me about when

01:08:26.620 i'm at the doors people are still asking you know thanking us for the last four years focusing on jobs

01:08:31.760 in the economy bringing back jobs bringing back investment uh working with job creators and then

01:08:36.540 they say look we need you to be back in there for another four years to continue their work so

01:08:40.440 we're we're that's what i'm here at the doors

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Rebel News Podcast - May 05, 2023

DAILY Roundup ｜ Danielle Smith's leadership, Rachel Notley's lies, AB church arsonist caught

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